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A 67-year-old British tourist jumped to his death from the seventh floor of a Bangkok hotel late Monday night, police said.Police said (name removed) died after he jumped from a restaurant balcony of the Westin Grande Sukhumvit Hotel at about 10.15pm.Full story: The NationBy The Nation
Read More A male foreigner set himself on fire in front of the Iranian embassy in Bangkok on Friday.The man, whose name and nationality were not known, was reported by witnesses to have poured gasoline on his body before setting himself on fire with a lighter in front of the Iranian embassy
Read More The Thai wife of a 52-year-old Japanese man fell to her death from her husband’s room on the 18th floor of a Bangkok condominium early Saturday in what her husband claimed to be a suicide jump.The incident at a 25-floor condominium on Soi Sukhumvit 26 was reported to Thonlor police
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Three workers were confirmed killed after a six-storey old building on Sukhumvit road in Phra Khanong collapsed to the ground while it was under demolition.Three other workers were believed to be trapped underneath the concrete rubble. Rescue workers are now racing with time to look for those still trapped inside
Read MoreA bomb found on a busy street in the Thai capital of Bangkok has been deactivated, the national police bomb disposal commander told media on Monday.MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The device was found and diffused a week after an explosion at a Hindu shrine in central Bangkok killed 20 people, including
Read MoreA Polish man was found dead with a severe knife wound to his throat in the bathroom of a luxury hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 23 in Bangkok late Friday night.The 42-year-old tourist, wearing a white bathrobe, was found lying in a pool of blood. A 10-centimetre knife was found in
Read MoreA combined police force raided a luxury condominium room on Sukhumvit 26 yesterday and arrested four South Korean people and charged them with running online gambling website.Bangkok Post reported that the arrest, the fourth time in a month, was a joint effort of the Thai and Korean police to crack
Read MorePolice in the Sukhumvit area have been ordered to halt all searches of foreign nationals without due process following concerns of police harassment.Pol Col Khajohnpong Jitpakpoom, the newly-appointed Thong Lor police superintendent, said unless a foreigner is acting suspiciously, his officers are prohibited from conducting random searches.Read more: Bangkok Post
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